I Answer to You

That I live  on this planet with you and all other spirited beings means that I am responsible to you and all others with whom I live. 

To be responsible is to be response-able, able to respond. 

I am not responsible for you. I am not able to respond for you. Only you can do that.

However, I am responsible to you. I am able to respond to you. I answer to you for how I treat you.  We answer to each other.

I speak and act. You answer. You either thrive or fade. I answer back to you for the thriving or fading affect I had on you. 

With rare exception when you thrive so do I. When you fade, so do I. 

Why? Because we live together. We are one. What affects your spirit affects mine.